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STRATEGIES SPRING-SUMMER 2015 / VOL. 20 NO. 3

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It’s the second week of June, and you’ve

just wrapped up your last final exam.

You’re feeling great! Summer is finally

here! While you probably have all sorts of

fun and intellectually stimulating activities

planned—vacation with family, travel

abroad, summer research—you may not

have given much thought to finding new

scholarships. Remem-

ber the fall quarter

will be here again

before you know it,

and the summer is an

excellent time to get

a jump on those early

September/October

deadlines!

Here are some concrete steps you can take

starting in the middle of June:

1) Build some time into your weekly

schedule to find scholarships. If you

haven’t done so already, now is a great

time to create a profile on one of our fa-

vorite scholarship databases,

www.scholarshipexperts.com. During the

school year, we suggest setting aside a

minimum of one hour per week to search

scholarship databases, Google creatively,

sift through potential scholarship applica-

tions, and work on personal statements

and other scholarship materials. In the

summer you can devote more time, so why

not devote at least two hours a week?!

2) Look for summer deadlines. Sure,

the majority of scholarship applications are

due between January and April, but there

are plenty of dead-

lines outside of those

months, with some

falling in the summer.

Keep your eyes

peeled for summer

essay contests in par-

ticular!

3) If you’re going

to be in Los Angeles for all, or part, of

the summer, come to the Scholarship

Resource Center in 233 Covel Com-

mons for help with your application

materials. Our summer hours are Monday

through Friday, 12:00 p.m.— 5:00 p.m. We

will be happy to help you with all aspects

of the scholarship application process.

If you still have questions, please feel free to call us at (310) 206-2875 or visit us at the SRC. During the spring quarter, we’re open Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m.— 6:00 p.m.

UCLA

Keeping Your Eyes On The (Scholarship) Prize During Summer Break

By Kim Mack, SRC Staff

IN THIS ISSUE:

Keeping Your Eyes on the (Scholarship) Prize

page 1

International and AB540 Scholarships

page 2

Financial Aid FAQ

page 3

Spotlight on Fashion Scholarship Winner

pages 4-5

Getting an Early Start on National &

International Merit Scholarships

page 6

2015-16 UCLA College Donor Scholarships

page 7

Spring Quarter Workshop Schedule

page 8

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Where do International and AB540

Students Find Scholarships?

Here’s the quick answer—drop by the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center in 233 Covel Commons any time during our office hours, which are Monday - Friday from 11 am to 6pm. Typically, we at the Scholarship Resource Center recommend online scholarship search engines as the best starting point for U.S. citizens seeking scholarship opportunities. However, those search engines typically do not help international and undocumented students nearly as much as they do U.S. citizens, since many of the essay contests found through those search en-gines exclude international and undocumented students from eligibility. Instead, we encourage international and undocumented students to make use of special resources that our staff has assem-bled at the SRC office in Covel Commons. We have a handout entitled “Resources for International and AB540 Students” that in-cludes links to a number of useful online resources, such as scholarship search en-gines that (unlike most search engines) do focus on international students and scholar-ship listings geared toward AB540 and non-citizen students. We also have a folder that collects printouts of various individual

scholarship opportunities open to interna-tional and AB540 students, which our staff members have retrieved from Internet searches. A number of scholarship cata-logues appear at the front of the folder, fol-lowed by a number of scholarships orga-nized by due date. In the very back of the folder, we have a few general resources rel-evant to international and undocumented

students (such as infor-mation about loans), as well as a final section of scholar-ships open to international and undocumented graduate students. The Scholarship Re-source Center’s website(www. scholarshipcenter. ucla.edu) also includes re-

sources useful to international and undocu-mented students. From the home page, click on “Scholarship Search” and then click again on “International Student” to find a variety of useful links that include both scholarship opportunities and more general resources useful to international and un-documented students. Between our handout, our scholarship folder, and our online resources, international and undocu-mented students will find more than enough at the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center to initiate a successful scholarship search.

By Mac Harris, SRC Staff

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How do I apply for summer financial aid?

In addition to completing the FAFSA, you must also complete the online Summer Financial Aid Application. The application and filing timeline

will vary depending on the summer program for which you seek assistance. The UCLA Sum-

mer Session application is available on the UCLA Financial Aid Office website beginning

April 1 (http://www.fao.ucla.edu/summer/Summer_Info.htm). The priority deadline for submitting the summer application is April 30

to be considered for all types of aid. If your summer application is filed after April 30, and/or your FAFSA is submitted after March 2, you

will be considered as a late applicant and the types of aid available to you will be limited.

Please check the UCLA FAO’s home page for information about applications and deadlines

for other summer programs.

Q &

A

Is financial aid available for the summer?

Summer aid is available to newly admitted and continuing UCLA students enrolled in UCLA Summer Sessions, the College

Summer Institute, Summer Sessions at another UC (cross-campus enrollment) or theUC Summer Travel Program. You

can only receive assistance for ONE summer program. As of the Summer of 2012, financial aid is no longer available for Non-

UC Study Abroad programs.

What type of aid is available during the

summer? On-time applicants (that is, those who

submit their FAFSA and/or the summer application by the due date) will be con-sidered for the same types of awards dur-ing the summer as during the academic

year: Federal, State ,and University Grants; Federal Perkins and Direct Loans; and Work-Study (for some programs). Late applicants (those who submit their FAFSA and/or the summer application late) will be considered for Federal Pell

Grants and Direct Loans only. Please re-fer to the summer guides (available un-der “Publications” on the UCLA Finan-cial Aid Office website) for additional information about finding funding for

summer sessions.

Remember, you must apply

separately for summer financial aid!

For more information visit the UCLA Financial

Aid Office website at http://www.fao.ucla.edu

A

A nna LaPlaca is UCLA’s new winner of the

YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) award, a

$5,000 merit-based national scholarship that in-

cludes a fashion-industry summer internship. Here,

Anna offers insight into the FSF application pro-

cess.

****************

What is your major?

What motivated you

to apply for the FSF

Scholarship?

I switched my major a

few times during my

freshman year, but I am

currently on track to ap-

ply to the Communica-

tions major this summer.

My minor is in Italian.

I’ve always had a strong

interest in the fashion in-

dustry and the creative

side of the business, so when I switched my major

track to Communications, I also made the conscious

decision to pursue a career in fashion journalism,

marketing, or editorial work. I starting interning

with fashion PR firms, writing for

www.CollegeFashionista.com, and I joined a couple

of fashion-related clubs on campus. When I heard

about the FSF Scholarship, I knew I had to apply

because it’s such a unique opportunity, especially

for UCLA students. I wanted something that would

connect me to the fashion industry, and that is ex-

actly what the FSF Scholarship does. For UCLA

especially, which doesn’t offer fashion industry-

related courses of study, there’s no doubt that this

scholarship is the absolute best way to create a fu-

ture career for yourself in fashion!

How does the FSF scholarship application

process work?

The scholarship’s application includes a detailed

case study of a fashion business or brand. You can

either complete the Design side of the application or

the Business side, which is

the one I chose to do. The

case study calls for the as-

sessment and analysis of

the brand across a diverse

range of components. You

need to have a creative

mind to complete the Mar-

keting Plan, but you also

need to acquire knowledge

of finance and economic

terms to complete the Pric-

ing Plan and SWOT analy-

sis of the brand. The bot-

tom line is, be as resource-

ful and detailed as possible

in your responses.

What happens once

you win an FSF Scholarship?

Once you are chosen as a scholar, you travel to

New York in early January for the awards dinner,

which is held at the Waldorf Astoria every year.

The dinner is truly an industry event where many

influential people come to network and meet the

scholars who are essentially the next generation of

the fashion industry. At this event, take advantage

of every introduction and connection, because you

never know who may help you land that dream in-

ternship or job. The next day is the Internship Fair

where you hand out your resume and speak with

HR representatives from a selection of FSF member

companies. The goal is to land an internship for the

following summer. Even if you don’t walk away

Spotlight on SRC Scholarship Winner: Interview with Fashion Scholarship Winner Anna LaPlaca

By Elizabeth Raisanen, SRC Staff

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Spotlight on SRC Scholarship Winner: Interview with Fashion Scholarship Winner Anna LaPlaca

from that event with an internship offer, your mentor

will help you with the job search process.

Where can UCLA students who are inter-

ested in fashion find other students with

similar interests?

I think it’s a common perception that because UCLA

is primarily a liberal arts university, we don’t have a

community of students passionate about this industry

and serious about a career in it. My experience has

been quite the opposite. This year, I became involved

with the executive board for UCLA’s Fashion and

Student Trends (FAST) student group, and I’ve met

so many talented and creative people who share my

career goals. I also work for Denizen Magazine,

which is a wholly student-run fashion and lifestyle

online publication, as their managing editor. These

two clubs have provided me with a wonderful com-

munity of like-minded students and have allowed me

the space to grow creatively. So essentially, if you’re

interested in fashion, just look around a bit and

you’ll find a whole community of students at UCLA

who share a serious interest in this industry.

What advice would you give FSF appli-

cants as they prepare their case studies for

the 2015-16 application cycle?

Give yourself a lot of time to complete the case

study! There may be terms that you’ve never seen

before. Do some Google searches, ask friends, fami-

ly members, professors, and TAs for assistance. My

number one piece of advice is to be resourceful! You

never know who may provide you with the

knowledge you need to complete a certain compo-

nent of the case study. My second piece of advice is

to be detail-oriented. Flesh out all of your ideas.

Think broadly at first and use others as sounding

boards for your ideas. Once you’ve decided on a

general track, think more and more narrowly until

you can pinpoint exactly how you’d carry out each

component that you are suggesting for the given

brand or business in the case study. Be as specific as

possible.

Finally, think outside the box and be creative.

There’s nothing better than standing out with a

unique vision. Above all else, don’t give up! This

may be a long and grueling application process, and

it’s likely you’ve never done anything like this be-

fore, but by completing the case study you’ll gain

valuable business and analytical skills, things that are

important no matter what you do. Just try to remem-

ber that you are applying because you have a serious

interest in pursuing a career in fashion, and winning

the FSF Scholarship will bring you one step closer to

achieving that goal.

**********************

If you are interested in learning more about the

Fashion Scholarship Fund Award or wish to obtain

an application and next year’s case study, please

email src@college.ucla.edu with “FSF Scholarship”

in the subject line.

EARLY DEADLINES

Have you ever dreamed of being a Fulbright recipient or a Rhodes

Scholar and seeing the world? Why not try to make that dream a

reality? There are prestigious scholarships open to students in

every field of study. Above all else, the applications for these high-

profile national and international scholarships require planning.

While most scholarship deadlines fall between January and April,

these deadlines are often in fall or

early winter. That makes the sum-

mer a good time to get started on

these kinds of applications.

GETTING STARTED

Many of these scholarships require

institutional nomination — this

means working with the UCLA

Scholarship Resource Center and

your academic advisor to prepare

you to be an excellent candidate. So give us a call at (310) 206-

2875 or visit our office (233 Covel Commons) to discuss your

goals and to get started on the process.

SEPTEMBER

Some national and international merit scholarships due in Septem-

ber include the following awards: the Marshall Scholarship

(www.marshallscholarship.org) is open to students in any disci-

pline who want to study in Britain. And to study in Ireland, there is

the Mitchell Scholarship (http://www.us-irelandalliance.org). The

Rhodes Scholarship, for study at Oxford, is open to exceptional

students in any discipline (www.rhodesscholar.org).

OCTOBER

The Churchill Foundation fellowship is for seniors or recent gradu-

ates in the fields of engineering and mathematics who want to

study at Cambridge (http://winstonchurchillfoundation.org).

For students in the arts, humanities, or social sciences, there is

the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for up to $30,000 to study in the US

or anywhere else in the world (http://scholarshipcenter.ucla.edu/

national_international/javits.htm).

NOVEMBER

Some prestigious awards due in November include the Ford Foun-

dation Fellowship. This program

seeks to increase the presence of

underrepresented minorities in the

nation's college and university facul-

ties by funding graduate study for

students who show the greatest

promise for future achievement as

scholars, researchers, and teachers

in institutions of higher education

(http://scholarshipcenter.ucla.edu/

national_international/ford.htm). Students interested in fashion

should keep in mind the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) award.

This scholarship includes not only a substantial monetary prize but

also an internship in New York or Los Angeles (www.ymafsf.org/

about-scholarship/).

MORE SCHOLARSHIPS

For information on these and many other scholarships, please

contact the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center at (310) 206-2875

or stop by our office (233 Covel Commons) in person. Our staff

can help you identify awards for which you might be eligible and

then help you create the most successful application possible.

Take advantage of the summer months to get started on your

dream of winning a prestigious national or international merit

scholarship!

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Getting an Early Start on

National and International Merit Scholarships By Francesca Marx, SRC Staff

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2015-16 UCLA College

Division of Undergraduate Education

Donor Scholarships

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants must

Demonstrate FINANCIAL NEED by completing the FAFSA (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov.) or Dream Application (https://dream.csac.ca.gov/)

Be UCLA undergraduate students enrolled full time within the College of Letters and Science

Fill out an application online, available at http://www.scholarshipcenter.ucla.edu/DUE/Cont_Students.html

Provide all supporting documentation, including an official or unofficial transcript and a copy of the PAL (Provisional Award Letter) or FAN (Financial Aid Notification) letter. DO NOT SUBMIT A DPR.

Submit completed applications to UCLA Scholarship Resource Center, 330 De Neve Drive, 233 Covel Commons, Box 957247, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7247.

DUE MAY 15

Myrtle Hickey De Luce Scholarship: preference to graduates of Lincoln, Belmont, John Marshall, or other LAUSD high schools who participate in at least one extracurricular activity. Heather L. Kase Endowed Scholarship: preference to female undergraduates of the Jewish faith who demonstrate financial need and academic potential. Louis Levy Endowed Scholarship: students should have a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA, demonstrate financial need, and have graduated from a CA public high school. Los Angeles Chapter of the Links Scholarship: preference to African-American students who demonstrate financial need and demonstrate a strong record of community service. Bess F. Raab Scholarship: preference to students with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA; must provide evidence of participa-tion in at least one extracurricular activity at UCLA or in the community. Rancho Park Rotary Club Scholarship: preference to full-time UCLA seniors of Iranian/Persian descent who actively participate in community service and demonstrate strong financial need; minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA. John Ringlbauer & Morris Brown UCLA Veteran’s Scholarships: awarded to a full-time UCLA student who is either currently en-listed or is a veteran of the Armed Forces and who honorably served the US. Preference to those who made the greatest commitment or sacrifice during their service. Louis and Zephyr Stuart Scholarship: preference to Armenian students who demonstrate leadership through extracur-ricular activities at UCLA and in the community; minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA. Jo-Belle Wolf Undergraduate Scholarship: preference to female students born in the US; minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA.

DUE JUNE 30

Nancy Diane Orford Scholarship: preference to students with cystic fibrosis or other disabilities. National Notary Foundation Scholarship: preference to students with a minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA and CA residents with strong leadership skills (for incoming freshmen only). Donald R. Shepherd Scholarship: preference to students from San Diego County with a minimum 3.75 cumulative GPA (for incoming freshmen only). Gertrude Pomish Scholarship: preference to students who actively participate in and demonstrate a strong record of commu-nity service (for incoming freshmen only). Leah Bettelman: available to first-year students with high merit and high financial need.

Take advantage of these FREE

resources and more!

Wide-Ranging Library

Workshops Every Quarter

Extensive Scholarship Website

One-on-One Counseling

Writing Assistance

Even a Typewriter!

233 Covel Commons

(310) 206-2875

Open Monday to Friday

11 am—6 pm

src@college.ucla.edu

www.scholarshipcenter.ucla.edu

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scholarships!

Scholarship Resource Center

Spring 2015 Workshop Schedule

All workshops are held in Covel 229 and include a

personalized follow-up counseling session.

Sign up for a workshop through MY.UCLA.EDU.

Secrets to Winning College Cash

April 1 Wednesday 5:30-6:00 PM

April 7 Tuesday 4:30-5:00 PM

April 16 Thursday 4:30-5:00 PM

April 20 Monday 5:30-6:00 PM

April 24 Friday 4:30-5:00 PM

May 4 Monday 5:00-5:30 PM

May 15 Friday 4:30-5:00 PM

How to Win Scholarships

April 8 Wednesday 5:00-5:30 PM

April 28 Tuesday 5:00-5:30 PM

How to Find Scholarships

April 14 Tuesday 5:00-5:30 PM

May 11 Monday 4:30-5:00 PM

How to Write Personal Statements for Scholarships

April 9 Thursday 4:30-5:30 PM

May 8 Friday 4:30-5:30 PM

May 13 Wednesday 5:00-6:00 PM

How to Get Letters of Recommendation for Scholarships

April 3 Friday 4:30-5:00 PM

April 15 Wednesday 5:00-5:30 PM

April 30 Thursday 5:00-5:30 PM

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